The Observer News generally doesn’t have to cover bad news. For that, I am grateful. There is plenty of bad news to be found and plenty of sources in which to find it.

As the Observer is a local, independently owned news source, we do not have the resources to provide in-depth coverage to many world events that occur outside of South Hillsborough. That does not mean, however, that we consider our readers immune from those events. Nor are we immune.

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